The Montrose Ghost.txt
The Montrose Ghost from the short story by Harold Balfour Adapted by Martin Jenkins Produced by Gerry Jones BBC Radio 4: Saturday Night Theatre 76-12-06 In 1915, when a ghost haunts the Royal Flying Corps Station in Montrose, Scotland, Captain Desmond Little knows why. The play opens on July 5th 1942, but the story begins earlier one morning in the spring of 1915. After six hectic months over the other side of the German line, Desmond had been posted to the Royal Flying Corps station in Montrose, Scotland, as a flying instructor. His nerves were in a bad way and Montrose seemed an ideal spot to relax. But that was not to be when he met and fell in love with Sylvia Adam, the wife of one of his Officer Cadets, Rupert Adam. And when Rupert dies in a plane crash on his first solo flight, his ghost begins to haunt the Montrose Airfield until Desmond leaves it and Sylvia. Twenty-seven years have passed and Desmond Little has been promoted to Air Vice Marshall and given command of No. 32 Group in Benson, Oxfordshire. When he arrived there, all memories of Montrose had faded. However, one event, one conversation, was to bring the appalling business flooding back to his memory. It was exactly two days earlier that the whole story started again, on July 3rd 1942, that is when Desmond's god-daughter tells him that she is going to be engaged to be married to Flight Lieutenant Rupert Adam.... John Pullen ..... Capt Little Chrisopher Neame ..... Lt Adam Douglas Blackwell ..... Flt Sgt Wood Rosalind Shanks ..... Sylvia Patrick Barr ..... Major Holt Jane Knowles ..... Flt Officer Anne Douglas David Graham ..... Capt Roberts David Neal ..... Wing Commander Buckle Christopher Bidmead ..... Rupert Sion Probert ..... Lt Wainwright/Signals Officer http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/review-the-montrose-ghost.html
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